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The Randomized Play-the-Winner Rule in Medical Trials
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In a sequential medical trial, a simple randomized treatment assignment rule is proposed and analyzed. On the average this rule assigns more patients to the better treatment, and it is applicable to the case where patients have delayed responses to treatments. This new assignment rule is studied for both a fixed sample size and an inverse stopping rule.
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- Authors
- Wei, L. J., & Durham, S.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1978-12
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 364
- Pages
- 840-843
- ISSN
- 0162-1459 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-274X
- OpenAlex
- W2002682396
- Cited by
- 481
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 0.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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